In 2009, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, presumably speaking on behalf of the newly inaugurated Barack Obama, issued the so-called Ogden memo, instructing federal prosecutors to not target medical-marijuana patients..... "Do you intend to carry this all the way through forfeiture?" Guilford asked U.S. Attorney Greg Parham. "Yes, absolutely, your honor," Parham responded. "The only evidence in this case is a $37 purchase of medical marijuana and an anonymous comment on a website that anybody could have written," Pappas says. "For this, they want to take a $1.5 million building."

It is a very unwise policy to use the criminal law as a “revenue enhancer.” If a government follows such a policy they lose in the eyes of the governed that dispassionate, neutral status so necessary for effective peaceful governance. Those that as of today who are currently in power in the federal government, and in some states, are so stupid and greedy they do not relaize they are setting themselves up for a savage reaction.

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posted on 02/09/2013 10:51:56 AM PST
by AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)

I think Obama’s hubris is such, that I think someone got in his head to think that he is going to own all of this, and I mean OWN, like he bought it all. The government is going to be his personal stewart and he is looking at owning the world or transfering this to whomever he is prostituted to, be it a foreign leader, government, nation, or even a private party.

He is now moving with landlord like legislation to check if your “whore”-house is Obamacare fit enough with OSHA type compliance controls, Singapore style.

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posted on 02/09/2013 11:00:54 AM PST
by JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)

Agenda 21 needs someone of such stupid hubris as Obama thinking he owns it. The agenda itself follows such a pattern and has to rely into this kind of mad person. No other sane person would have the “idiot chutzpah” he has.

What is sad is that DC is so sold out to all the foreigners living in DC and applauding Bill Clinton at the UN during impeachment processes, that DC is at war against us in their prostitution to the intimidation this gang of foreign leaders is impressing on us.

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posted on 02/09/2013 11:03:40 AM PST
by JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)

not saying i agree with this but, selling pot is against federal law, and the owners of the buildings that rented space prolly thought they were being cute by renting to those breaking said law, play stooopid games, win stooopid prizes...

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posted on 02/09/2013 11:05:07 AM PST
by Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

An excuse and a distraction. The left hates private property (see the communist manifesto) and uses any means they can think of to seize it
In the USA they don’t call it seizure - someone might remember hearing something like “right of the people .... to be secure .... search and seizure...”
But it’s illegal seizure of private property without just compensation.
Americans don’t want to hear it, but this country has already slid into socialism.

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posted on 02/09/2013 11:11:49 AM PST
by I want the USA back
(Only people with their head up their a$$ vote democrat.)

I always love selective enforcement of the law. Obviously, this building’s owner doesn’t have a huge law firm sitting at his beck and call, therefore an easy target to use forfeiture law to seize the property. I’m sure the feds will seize the convention center next...

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posted on 02/09/2013 11:14:10 AM PST
by kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)

Well the owners are a husband and wife; it was retirement investment money. They were being stupid for believing the FEDS saying it would be overlooked. And even though something is against the law I don’t think the property owners should lose everything they have because of something illegal someone else did on their property. The police and FEDS have done this to property owners that didn’t even know someone had done something illegal on their property.

like i said, i don't agree with it but, they knew what was being sold there and should have known better... after all it was a business with a sign, not like it was being sold out of a rented house without their knowledge

anybody that risk their retirement like that, well... i guess i don't know what to say

even if they get to keep the property, they will lose more then the rent was worth in court costs

a hard lesson to learn, never EVER trust the government

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posted on 02/09/2013 11:24:31 AM PST
by Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

On several occasions, honest cops have warned that the rules governing seizure of assets in many different kinds of cased, not just drug cases, leads to corruption as officers and departments eye money and property seized as their own. It’s not so surprising in this case.

I read an article describing why Haiti was poor. It was not that the people were lazy, but that the government acted as a wealth confiscator, which prevented people from accumulating capital OR continuing to work after needs were met.

Oh puh-leeez. The DEA has been an out-of-control Federal agency for decades. It shouldn't have taken Barack Obama to get people to notice that. You don't think these abuses went on under Bush -- or Reagan? Think again.

People demanded a police state and they got a police state. According to folks 'round these parts, it's all fine as long as we have the 2nd Amendment. I guess they'll start shooting people when the DEA comes for their property? That'll end well.

Another gross area is the “Work Zone” signs on the highways. Most states double the fines for violations occurring in the “Work Zones.” Now many states require that there actually be workers in the zone before the doubling of the fines occurs thus demonstrating a desire to protect the workers. However, in California where we are governed by criminals, vice addicts and those who do not even belong to our society workers do not have to be present for the doubling to occur. It is not much of an exaggeration to state that every highway and free way has magically been transmuted into a work zone even though one never sees any workers!

The real question has become "How long are we going to tolerate these vermin in positions of authority?"

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posted on 02/09/2013 1:41:55 PM PST
by AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)

I am against the legalization of pot. That said, I don’t support this behavior.

Our government is making very odd noises about pot legality. The Feds say it’s illegal, but then they don’t enforce, but then they do, then they give people time, then they negotiate, they makes statements like the one listed above about not seizing, then they do, and the states pass various laws, and the Feds say they won’t respect them, but people are smoking openly at concerts and parties and bus stops and no one seems to do anything.

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